Jeff Abbott & Ace Atkins

Jeff Abbott is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of numerous mystery and suspense novels, including the Sam Capra series, Jordan Poteet series, and the White Mosley series. His novel Sam Capra novel The Last Minute won the International Thriller Writers Award. He is a three-time finalist for the Edgar Award. A native Texan, he graduated from Rice University with a degree in history and English and worked as a creative director at an advertising agency before writing full time.

Ace Atkins will sign and discuss his new Quinn Colson novel, The Fallen(Putnam; 27).

Ace Atkins is the New York Times Bestselling author of nineteen novels, including The Innocents and Robert B. Parker's Slow Burn, both out from G.P. Putnam's Sons in 2016.

One of the best crime writers working today, Ace has been nominated for every major award in crime fiction, including the Edgar twice for novels about former U.S. Army Ranger Quinn Colson. A former newspaper reporter and SEC football player, Ace also writes essays and investigative pieces for several national magazines including Outside and Men's Journal.

He lives in Oxford, Mississippi with his family, where he's friend to many dogs and several bartenders.

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Saturday, July 22, 2017 - 4:30pm

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From "one of the best thriller writers in the business" (Associated Press) comes a novel praised by Harlan Coben as "mesmerizing, gripping...the perfect blend of complex characters, plot twists galore, and great psychological suspense."

Sometimes the person you thought you knew best...Turns out to be someone you never really knew at all.

She is a good mother. She will do what she must to ensure that her daughter Diana has a perfect life, just as perfect as the one they've led for the past seven years. No matter who has to die. DOWNFALL The simplest beginnings can unravel a life. For Sam Capra, it is the moment a beautiful young woman walks into his San Francisco bar.

A Quinn Colson Novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Places

Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a pair of paratrooper boots. Less than two days later, he was accused of rape and murder, hunted down by a frenzied posse, and lynched.